Mehdi Ataei
Senior Research Scientist at Autodesk
About Me
I'm a researcher at Autodesk working on AI and computational physics. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and did my undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology. My work focuses on generative AI systems for engineering applications. I also teach AI and machine learning courses at the University of Toronto, York University, and Vector Institute.
Current Research Interests
Vision Language Models
Fine-tuning, physical reasoning, and post-training reinforcement learning using simulation.
Deep Generative Models
Developing generative AI models for design automation.
High-Performance Computing
Multi-GPU programming, distributed training, and scaling large simulations.